PREPAK wants apprehended rebels to be treated as POWs

Imphal, December 21: The Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak today said the sovereign Bhutan rather than supporting the movement to restore the lost sovereignty of the region is standing against the people of the north east people whose rights had been taken away. It is a game for the government of India but it will read to conflicts amongst kinsmen it further said. Prepak wants to have good relations with Bhutanese but it condemned the puppet Jigme Wangchuk government. It condemned in the highest terms the killing of those who are in their custody. It clarified that the offer to go back...

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Bhutan Army seizes huge cache of ultra arms

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Royal Bhutan Army, in the operation against the militants, recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, which speaks volumes of the arms and ammunition available with the militant groups. Highly placed security sources revealed that as per the list of weapons recovered from the militant camps, which was handed over to the Government of India by the Bhutan Government, more than 700 weapons have so far been recovered from the militant camps. Sources said that the list submitted included 500 AK-47 rifles, about a hundred pistols and other sophisticated weapons like anti...

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Safety of women, children Bhutan?s priority

GUWAHATI, Dec 21 ? The Bhutanese Government is attaching priority to the safety of the unarmed women and children living in the Indian militants? camps in Bhutan. The Royal Government of the Himalayan kingdom is taking all the care to provide food and shelter to these inmates of the militant camps, said Director of Bhutanese Foreign Ministry Yeshey Dorji yesterday. He was talking to this correspondent at the regional Revenue and Customs Directorate of the kingdom?s Samdrup Jongkhar district yesterday.

When the Bhutanese official was talking to this correspondent at Samdrup Jongkhar, the...

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Arunachal year-ender ? political upheaval, Chakma-Hajong issue dominate

ITANAGAR, Dec 21? The tiny state of Arunachal Pradesh witnessed a political upheaval in 2003 that saw ruling Congress suffering a split leading to the fall of Mukut Mithi government and giving BJP the first taste of power in a north- eastern state under the leaderdship of veteran Gegong Apang, who came out of political wilderness.

Though discontent among Congress MLAs surfaced in the middle of the year, it thickened to change the political scenerio when a sizeable number of ministers and MLAs set up a camp at local hotel Bomdila on September 27. Of the total 58 Congress MLAs, including two...

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Mithinga produced in Nalbari court

NALBARI, Dec 21? Police today produced ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimari and the five other militants handed over to it by the Army authorities last evening, before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalbari. They were remanded to five days police custody by the Court. Mithinga was captured by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) at Sixth Mile on the northern part of Samdrup Jongkjhar town on December 16 where he was taking shelter in a solitary house. His two body guards were not around when the RBA raided the house. The RBA also seized Mithinga?s M-20 pistol.

Talking to this correspondent...

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The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments. This site has over 6,000 news items that are of value to academics, researchers and journalists.

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